Berkeley MEng celebrates 330 graduates
By Ashley Villanueva
Rain or shine, Berkeley Master of Engineering (MEng) graduates rise to the challenge! On Tuesday, May 21, 2019, 330 MEng candidates joined the UC Berkeley alumni network at the College of Engineering Master’s Commencement. The Men’s Chorale opened the ceremony with the Star-Spangled Banner, followed by Fiona Doyles’ final address as the Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean of the Graduate Division.
Elizabeth Hausler, M.S.’98, Ph.D.’02 Civil & Environmental Engineering delivered the keynote address. As Founder and CEO of Build Change, a nonprofit that designs and builds disaster-resistant structures using cost-
effective, local materials, Elizabeth emphasized the power of innovation and inclusion: “Everyone deserves the right to a safe house regardless of their income.”
The Berkeley MEng Class of 2019 is one of the largest classes to-date.
- Graduates represent 34+ countries and regions, including China, India France, Taiwan, and more.
- MEng graduates will move on to work at top companies like Google, Disney, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Pinterest, and more!
- Capstone teams have participated — and continue to place highly — in campus, inter-campus, and national competitions. Jovin Foo, Bethany Lu, ️Kristjan Sigurdsson, ️Zining Wang, and ️John Young placed first in Bose Augmented Reality Grand Prize at SXSW. Alvina Kam, MEng ’19 (MSE), and her team placed second in the Big Ideas Pitch Competition. Meryll Dindin, Thomas Galeon, Pierre-Louis Missler placed first in the IBM Hackathon Call for Code at UC Berkeley.
- In May, we hosted the largest Spring Capstone Showcase with over 550 guests in attendance, including guests from Credit Karma, Siemens, Ripple, General Motors, Tesla, Maxim Integrated, Volvo, and more!
- Over five startups have been established under Berkeley MEng connections, including Project Sparthan, GenomEdge, Thrive Education, and WorknGo.
Congratulations Class of 2019! We are so proud.
Pledge of Ethical Conduct for Engineers
We, the graduating engineering Class of 2018, in recognition of the importance of our technologies in affecting the quality of life throughout the world, and in accepting a personal obligation to our profession, its members and the communities we serve, pledge to commit ourselves to the highest ethical and professional conduct. Throughout our careers, we will consider the ethical implications and the impact on safety, health and welfare of the public and the environment of the work we do before we take action. While the demands placed upon us may be great, we make this declaration because we recognize that individual responsibility is the first step on the path to a better world for all.
— Adopted by the Student Relations Committee, Engineering Student Council and some 85 student societies of the UC Berkeley College of Engineering
